Government Legislation Quotes
The Social Security law, most American’s favorite government program, had just been passed that year, and like the Affordable Health Care Act in the Obama administration, the Republicans were rabidly opposed to the program, and there was none of the collaboration with an objective to perfect and improve the legislative language. And like “Obama Care” and most very large new government initiatives, there were many problems that became clear once the program was started. Amazingly President Roosevelt was the first to tell the public and the press that the Social Security program will have many problems, but what does not work can be replaced by something else and the program would be improved. This was part of FDR’s basic approach to the Presidency. (See {631419}.) No politician in modern times would be able to say that or anything like it, and Mrs. Roosevelt’s quotation here, which she wrote for the entire country to see, most politicians and political scientists would agree that she was exactly right about new legislative initiative.
This hyperbole was typical of the conservative wing of the Republican Party who in modern times had fought any Federal Involvement in the American Health Care system including even Medicare when it was introduced. This claim was “over the top” and even people in her own party distanced themselves from her accusation. Despite major opposition and mistruths about the legislation. It passed—the most important health reform since Medicare.
